Satyendar Jain said he wanted to witness the system himself because he was skeptical of the model.
Dungarpur (Raj):
The Delhi government will adopt the cost-effective rainwater harvesting model currently being implemented in the tribal-dominated Dungarpur district of Rajasthan, the city’s Water Minister Satyendar Jain said.
A seven-member delegation, led by Satyendar Jain, was on an official visit here to witness the rainwater harvesting system which costs only Rs 16,000 compared to the conventional system, which costs between Rs 50,000 and a lakh per household.
Satyendar Jain said the Dungarpur model was an innovative idea focused on channeling rainwater to a borehole, instead of an ordinary rainwater collection pit.
“This is a closed loop system. The rainwater collected on the roof is channeled to the casing of already existing boreholes in the households. They created sand filters in the conduit itself. and also included a backwash means, ”he said. PTI.
Satyendar Jain said he wanted to witness the system himself because he was skeptical of the model when KK Gupta, the chairman of Dungar City Council, first told him about it.
“I am satisfied now. It is an excellent system. We will implement it in Delhi, others should follow it too,” said the minister.
“Normally, the construction of a rainwater collection system costs between Rs 50,000 and Rs a lakh, but the one implemented in Dungarpur costs only Rs 16,000,” he added.
KK Gupta asserted that there will be no water shortage in Delhi if the Aam Aadmi (AAP) party government implements the Dungarpur model of water harvesting in the national capital.
“The minister couldn’t believe it when I first told him that we had developed a water harvesting system that only costs 16,000 rupees. In Delhi, the administration spent lakhs creating large pits to collect rainwater.
“Delhi suffers from a water shortage. The problem will be 100% solved if the city implements this model,” he said.
KK Gupta said the Dungarpur administration provides a 50 percent subsidy per household for the installation of a rainwater harvesting system.
“Effectively it costs Rs 8,000 per household. We have covered around 400 households and government buildings over the past three years,” he said.
A government official in Dungarpur said building large water collection pits was not an economically viable idea.
“Our concept aims to make the rainwater harvesting system affordable so that more and more people can use it.
“Not everyone can afford to pay for an expensive rainwater harvesting system, so most people avoid creating one. The one we developed dramatically cuts costs and does its job efficiently.” , did he declare.
The official said the system can collect and deliver 3,000 liters of water per hour if rainfall is low to moderate.
“The conventional system has more storage capacity and the groundwater recharge speed is slightly better, but most people don’t use it because it’s expensive.
“If we wanted to create a conventional rainwater harvesting system in Dungarpur, barely 10 people would have accepted,” he said.
